Modern English biography

(1861); _I.L.N. xviii_ 77 (1851) _portrait_, _xxxvii_ 539, 544 (1860) _portrait_. NORGATE, THOMAS STARLING (son of Elias Norgate, surgeon). _b._ Norwich 20 Aug. 1772; educ. Norwich gr. sch. 1780–8, and New college, Hackney; student at Lincoln’s inn; wrote for the Analytical review till it ceased 1799; wrote the half-yearly retrospect of domestic literature in the Monthly magazine 1797–1807; wrote nearly a seventh part of Arthur Aikin’s Annual review 1802–8; wrote for the Monthly review; helped to found the Norfolk and Norwich horticultural society 1829; edited the East Anglian, a weekly newspaper published at Norwich 1830–3; edited sir W. Jones’ The principles of government 1797; author of Essays, tales and poems, Norwich 1795. _d._ Hethersett, Norfolk 7 July 1859. NORGATE, THOMAS STARLING (4 son of the preceding). _b._ 30 Dec. 1807; educ. Norwich gr. sch. and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; C. of Briningham 1832, C. of Clay-next-the-Sea, and C. of Banningham, all in Norfolk; R. of Sparham, Norfolk 21 April 1840 to death; author of Batrachomyomachia, an Homeric fable reproduced in dramatic blank verse 1863; The Odyssey in dramatic blank verse 1863; The Iliad in dramatic blank verse